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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Reports are coming in concerning the great American Tea Party held in cities and towns across America on Friday.

From what we can tell, the events were successful. Some were poorly attended, but for the most part, the response was beyond expectations, given the short notice and the inclement weather experienced by much of the nation.

Columbia Conservative Examinerhas the roundup from Greenville, SC, to Washington, to Chicago, to St. Louis, to Atlanta, and many places in between. Give it a read, and pass it along! Thanks!

Dr. Alan Keyes, conservative African-American extraordinaire, issued a statement that has set the blogosphere abuzz: 'Barack Obama is an extremist Communist...'

Keyes went further to say that Obama will ruin this country and that he 'must be stopped.'

But even better than reading the words of Dr. Keyes is seeing on video. And John Jacob Hhas it. Just click on the link at his name, and view one of the most riveting pieces of commentary yet on the very real danger of Barack Obama.

The St. Louis Tea Party so far has been one of the largest in the nation as taxpayers from coast to coast gathered in towns and cities across America to make their voices heard.

It will be interesting to see the overall attendance figures for today's events. And, given that in some venues there was little advance notice and the weather was terrible, it appears that in general the somewhat simultaneous events were very successful.

Pax Parabellumpoints out that despite the rhetoric, Obama can't just raise taxes only on the rich to pay for his massive spending program. Taxes will eventually skyrocket for ALL.

Say Unclereports that Idaho is the latest state to consider snubbing federal gun laws.

Codrea's Gun Rights Examinersays the Obama team is now in full damage control over Holder's call for a new assault weapons ban. Apparently they got an earful of outrage.

Codrea's War on Gunsposts the MUST-read of the day from the President of the Norfolk County League of Sportsmen's Clubs.

Sebastianreports that the Tea Party held today in Philly was very poorly attended.

Instapundit, however, has pics from areas of the country where the Tea Party was highly successful, despite the terrible weather. In some areas, it was extremely cold. In others, it was cold and rainy. But they showed up by the hundreds.

Armed and Safesays that San Fran Nan is now chirping the same mantra as the NRA!

Sipsy Street Irregularssays that the New York Times, which is on the brink of going under, had the audacity and stupidity to call for draconian gun control. Read it all.

And now...the moment you've all been waiting for...An Ol' Broad's Ramblingsprovides the best in political cartoons in 'Obamarama.' This has become a Friday tradition here on the Liberty Sphere. Be sure to take a look and have yourself a good laugh!

Mike McCarville reports on the Congressional Gun Rights group to be headed by U.S. Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma.

Sebastiandoesn't think Obama has the votes in Congress to pass a new assault weapons ban, and he details his reasoning along with a prediction of how members of Congress would vote on the issue.

Michelle Malkingives us an update on Tea Party U.S.A., the growing taxpayer protest movement against Barack Obama.

Say Uncledoesn't think GOP Governor Bobby Jindal has a chance on the national stage because of some of his views, such as abortion. If that's the case, the country is in much worse shape than I imagined.

Speaking of Gov. Jindal, most of those 'responses to the President's address' things on TV are not that good. It may be due to the type of venue. But as The Rustmeisterreports, Bobby usually hits it out of the ballpark in live speeches before audiences. He provides a video as an example.

JRreports that the growing 'states rights' movement has come to the Texas legislature.

Free in Idahopoints to a 22-year-old who was smart enough to figure out for himself the real meaning of 'unalienable rights.' Read it all.

John Jacob Hposts the scoop on an organization that may be yet another gun-rights 'Trojan Horse.'

Bredablogs on the upcoming Chicago Tea Party on Friday, as part of the national taxpayer revolt against Obama called, 'Tea Party U.S.A.'

Dr. John Lottreports that even the Democrat-controlled Congressional Budget Office admits that huge government deficits will continue for a decade under the Obama plan. True. Obama admitted it Tuesday night. His stimulus bill doubled the deficit, and he promised to cut it in half, which will bring the deficit right back to where it was prior to the stimulus bill.

And for the 'rolling-in-the-floor-laughing-hysterically' moment of the day, be sure to take a look at THIS over at Western Rifle Shooters Association. Be sure to 'insert your own caption.'It seems to me that 'insert' may be the key word here.

Alpheccaconfirms our warnings about Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. When it came right down to an important gun rights issue, she turned against us. Not surprising.

As I have written before on The Liberty Sphere, the notion that a tax increase should be levied against the wealthy in hard economic times is a serious flaw doomed for failure. None other than Herbert Hoover attempted this policy initiative in 1932 during one of the nation's most severe recessions.

The result was that a severe recession turned into the Great Depression within a matter of a few short months.

And this is my topic of discussion today at Columbia Conservative Examiner. Yesterday's article created quite a stir among those who apparently have a very fuzzy view of history. In today's article I attempt to correct such thinking by providing the facts from the era.

Once again, I urge you to read it and pass it along to everyone you can think of. And thanks!

In Barack Obama's speech before Congress last night there are serious policy flaws that must be considered by conscientious citizens. One must look beneath the rhetoric and pleasant demeanor in order to objectively assess these flaws.

In this article I go into some detail to show the serious flaws contained in Barack Obama's plan for the nation. If I may engage in some self-serving promotion, I believe that the article is a MUST-read for any conscientious American who wants to know the truth.

CBS News anchor Katie Couric, the talking airhead, tried her best to make Sarah Palin look like a 'dumb' conservative. Perhaps Couric should do some serious introspection before doing that to anyone else.

Before and after Obama's speech Tuesday night, Couric, as usual, played up the 'support Obama' rhetoric with her comments, such as 'The American people overwhelmingly support Obama's plan for the country,' and 'President Obama has an enormous amount of political capital to spend.'

Yet she turned right around and cited several polls that show the complete fallacy of the words she had just spoken.

For example, she stated that only approximately 33%-39% of Americans support bailouts for the automakers, Wall Street, and those who can't pay their home mortgages.

Excuse me, Ms. Couric, but the figures you cited in those polls clearly do NOT show that 'Americans overwhelmingly support Obama's plan for the country.' Are you not aware, Ms. Couric, that those figures show exactly the OPPOSITE of what you said?

Perhaps you are NOT aware. If that is the case, then you are without doubt the biggest ignoramus to ever occupy an anchor's chair.

But if you ARE aware of the contradiction, then you just lied to the American public.

And you people wonder why Americans in ever-increasing numbers say they do not trust the mainstream news media. You are either too dumb to recognize a blatant contradiction in reporting, or you deliberately lie to the public. In either case you do not exactly inspire confidence on the part of the viewing public.

No clearer distinction could be made between big government Democrats and conservative Republicans than Jindal made last night.

Barack Obama's speech clearly defined his ideology. Spend trillions of taxpayer dollars and expand the role and scope of government, because the citizens simply can't be trusted with their own money. This is pure socialism.

Bobby Jindal, by contrast, stated that individual Americans can do anything we set our minds to do...if only government gets out of the way.

This is precisely the philosophy set forth by President Ronald Reagan in his 1981 Inaugural Address.

Liberals, Democrats, and President Obama believe that only the federal government can be trusted to 'fix' things. Conservatives, Republicans, and Bobby Jindal believe that the individual citizens can do far more than they ever conceived if they put their minds to it.

The new Chair of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, stated on Monday that he is open to primary challenges against the 3 GOP turncoats who voted in favor of the Obama pork-fest--Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins.

This is the topic of my column for today at Columbia Conservative Examiner. No doubt Specter, Snowe, and Collins are intensely disliked among most GOP faithful across the country, but the question is, can a more conservative candidate fly in states like Maine and Pennsylvania?

And what about other questionable GOP Senators, such as South Carolina's Lindsey Graham?

This may not be the most popular thing to say at this point in time in America, but why on earth should I want to bail out homeowners with my tax dollars?

For eons of time homeowners who could no longer afford their mortgages did one of two things--sell or go into foreclosure. If selling wasn't an option, foreclosure was the only thing left, provided they had exhausted all other financing possibilities.

And yes, it has happened to me.

It has happened to millions of Americans through the years. Yet nobody came around with the 'government tit' (Jimmy Stewart's comment about it in the movie Shenandoah) to offer financial help, 'free government money' that is not really free, or a plan to 'buy down the mortgage.'

We succeeded or failed all on our own, sometimes due to circumstances beyond our control, such as a catastrophic illness or loss of income. But we somehow managed to pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps and start over.

And this is my message to those homeowners who somehow think that because they may lose a house, it is therefore the government's responsibility to come in and save it for them. Listen, it is NOT my responsibility as a taxpayer to make sure YOU don't lose your house. That is YOUR responsibility. And if you lose, you suck it up and start over, just like the millions before you have done.

This goes for businesses as well. I have also lost a business. Yet the government tit didn't show itself for me at that point, either.

Thus, I am totally 100% against government bailouts for homeowners and corporations. Do what all others have done in the past who have lost out...suck it up, learn your lessons, and move on. But DON'T expect taxpayers to pick up the pieces for you.

I don't care how good of an actor he supposedly may be. I still can't stand Sean Penn.

I knew that if he won an Oscar on Sunday night, he would, as usual, use his platform as a public figure to spout political nonsense whether we want to hear his drivel or not.

And he certainly didn't disappoint or surprise anyone when he launched into his mindless blather about what a prince of a man the country just elected to the White House, followed by a string of insults aimed at those who voted against gay marriage in California.

Penn is one of the reasons I hate the Oscars. I have never really enjoyed watching a single one since the mid 1980s. It seems to me that the entire lot is dominated by leftwing loony-'toons coo-coo clocks who feel that the country wants to hear what they have to say about politics simply because they know how to memorize what somebody else wrote.

I don't want to hear it, period. Penn is a bastard, and I don't care to hear a word about what he thinks concerning the Socialist in the White House or his support for gay 'marriage.' I have just about had it with all of that politically correct horseshit.

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that due to budget constraints and the recession, Obama has therefore put his plans to socialize healthcare on the back burner. The first sign that the plan is still very much near the top of the list is the fact that it was included in the 'stimulus bill' as a rider.

John Jacob Hhas a timely update on the law enforcement raid of the food ministry for needy families in Ohio.

Mindful Musingsposts the spot-on quote of the day on the hijacking of America.

And if that was sufficient to whet your appetite, take a look at this one from Western Rifle Shooters Associationon the theory that Obama wants to push the nation to civil war so he can then 'unite' it under more federal control known as socialism.

Nickihas a riveting read on the execution of a perpetrator and the evidence against him. Take a look!

Bredasays that Dollhouse is her kind of story (it's on DVD). Look to see why.

Mike McCarvillepoints to an interesting Gallup report on religion in the South.

Walls of the Cityadmirably complained to some advertisers on the Commercial Appeal concerning their publishing the names of concealed carry licensees, and here he writes about a response of sorts.

Say Unclereports that yet another newspaper has published the names of concealed carry licensees, this time in Arkansas.

Tamoffers appropriate snark to that numbskull, Britain Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on his call for a 'global New Deal.'

Days of our Trailersreports that Hamas has solicited the services of Sen. John Kerry to mediate between a group of Palestinian terrorists and Obama. Not surprising. Kerry has a penchant for helping America's enemies.

Insight on Freedomhas the MUST-read of the day, the title of which says it all--'The States are not Branches of the Federal Government!' Amen!

Roberta Xhas had another health episode, and here she gives us an update.

2A Musingposts an excellent read on range lessons--some good pointers about shooting at the firing range.

Alpheccareports that the folk in Montana have flipped another bird at the Feds...they want to exempt guns made and sold in the state from all federal licensing and background check requirements.

Texas Fredcomments on the NAACP's action against the New York Post concerning the monkey cartoon.

As we have warned previously, hidden in the 1.2 trillion dollar Obama-Democrat pork spending bill is a provision for healthcare rationing as the nation moves toward socialized medical care.

But now a U.S. Senator is on the case and calling for citizens 'taking to the streets' to protest the bill, particularly this horrific provision that will ration care for senior adults who are deemed too old and sick to get expensive medications and treatment.

And this is the subject of my column today at Columbia Conservative Examiner.Few people were aware that the Democrats slipped in this provision in their rush to get the bill passed with little debate, and without giving members time to read the 1000-page document.

The shocking provision mandates a 'national healthcare coordinator' who will be looking over your doctor's shoulders to make sure he doesn't spend too much in your care, particularly if you are deemed too old or sick to 'justify' the expenditures.

This is one of the most important columns I have written yet at the Examiner. Read it, spread the word, and then get ready to join the nationwide protest!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Let's cut right to the chase at the very outset. The Founders of this Republic believed that all citizens should be armed as the best means of preventing government tyranny, including our own. They also believed that the rights enumerated in the First Amendment were secured and protected by an armed citizenry.

Now that we have that much out of the way, let's move on to another step.

Since the Founders believed these things and included gun rights in the Bill of Rights to be protected as one of the 'unalienable rights' of citizens, all of our so-called 'reasonable restrictions' on gun rights are illegal.

The common argument, for example, in favor of gun control compares firearms registration with getting a driver's license. But the two cannot be compared because getting a driver's license is not a Constitutional right but a privilege granted by states. Keeping and bearing firearms is not a privilege granted by anyone. It is an absolute right as stated in the Constitution.

OK, so we have dropped the ball in allowing encroachments upon this unalienable right ever since the 1940s. We refused to mount a serious fight against gun control in all forms. We did not draw a line in the sand, and even if we did, we didn't force those who crossed that line to suffer any measurable consequence.

That day is quickly drawing to an end.

Citizens around this nation who are perceptive and aware enough to know that under the current administration and Congress our rights are in grave danger are beginning to wake up to the fact that a day of reckoning may be approaching.

And, as the 'run on the gun shops' is proving, the citizens in record numbers are getting prepared not only to draw a line in the sand but to force those who cross that line to pay for their actions.

Never again will we allow the forces of anti-freedom in this country to encroach upon a God-given, Constitution-protected right. We have learned our lesson from our failures of the past. And we are ready.

There is big news today on the heels of an announcement by the Obama administration of a hefty tax hike on those making above $250,000...in the midst of a severe recession. The taxpayer revolt that began several days ago in Seattle has spread and has now gone national.

The national movement is known as 'Tea Party U.S.A.', and dozens of protests are planned in cities across the country.

And this is the subject of my column today at Columbia Conservative Examiner.You will even find information that will help YOU organize a tea party in YOUR area, even if you have never done such a thing before.

Tea Party U.S.A. is only going to grow as word spreads of Obama's new tax increase, just as Herbert Hoover did in 1932 during a very severe recession. The tax increase is viewed by many economists as the precipitating factor that pushed the U.S. over the edge from a recession into the Great Depression.

I strongly encourage you to read my column at the Examiner today and spread the word. This is going to be a movement of great national significance as the grassroots citizens express their discontent over the direction Obama and the Democrats are taking the country.